Universal Healthcare?

[myohmy2]

China COVID deaths: 4635, population 1.4 billion

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/

...universal healthcare
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India COVID deaths: 152,747, population 1.4 billion

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/

...universal healthcare
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...U.S. COVID deaths: 410,358, population 330 million

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

...no universal healthcare
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...hmmmm

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[Ron Green]

1. One risk pool is a health care system. Multiple risk pools is an investment scheme.

We have enough investment schemes in this country; we need a health care system.

[Wounded Bear]

2. We don't have a health care system. We have a for-profit health care industry...nt

[roamer65]

3. China isn't quite a universal system.

There is a public option, but it usually only covers about half of the costs for patients from what I have read in the past.

China did make COVID related care free, unlike the US.

China enforced quarantine and masking very rigorously. Compliance was MANDATORY.

[Budi]

4. The US had Trump for a leader. He fired the Pandemic Response Team before the virus arrived

And he did nothing when it arrived.
Nothing.
The COVID death numbers don't reflect a health care policy failure, they reflect a leadership failure from the 1st day.
Trump never gave a shit about it unless he saw a way to profit from it.

It has nothing to do with the Healthcare policy of Obama/Biden.
This failure is on Trump.

[Progressive dog]

5. The US heath care system was overwhelmed

by the number of covid paients.
There is one reason for our poor performance at preventing infection and that reason is the Trump administration. We had about 2.4X the number of confirmed cases as India.
The USA has more than 9 years advantage over India in life expectancy.